hopelessness

English

Etymology

From hopeless +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

hopelessness (countable and uncountable, plural hopelessnesses)

1. A lack of hope; despair.
   • 2022 August 23, Dani Blum, “How Can I Tell if I’m Depressed or Burned Out?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Depression can induce an overwhelming sense of sadness and hopelessness.

Derived terms

• Beck Hopelessness Scale

Translations

the lack of hope; despair

• Armenian: հուսահատություն (hy) (husahatutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: ümidsizlik
• Belarusian: безнадзе́йнасць f (bjeznadzjéjnascʹ)
• Cebuano: pagkawalay-paglaom
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絕望／绝望 (zh) (juéwàng)

• Czech: beznaděj f
• Danish: håbløshed c
• Dutch: hopeloosheid (nl) f
• Finnish: toivottomuus (fi)
• French: désespérance (fr) f
• Georgian: უიმედობა (uimedoba), უსასოობა (usasooba), სასოწარკვეთილება (sasoc̣arḳvetileba)
• German: Hoffnungslosigkeit (de) f
• Greek: απελπισία (el) f (apelpisía)
• Hungarian: reménytelenség (hu)
• Indonesian: keputusasan
• Japanese: 絶望 (ja) (ぜつぼう, zetsubō)
• Kazakh: үмітсіздік (ümıtsızdık)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نائومێدی (na'umêdî)

  Northern Kurdish: bêhêvîtî (ku) f

• Latin: desperatio f
• Latvian: bezcerība f
• Macedonian: безнадежност f (beznadežnost)
• Maori: takaruretanga, kiriwera, rāwakiwaki
• Polish: beznadzieja (pl) f, beznadziejność (pl) f
• Portuguese: desesperança (pt) f
• Romanian: deznădejde (ro) f, disperare (ro) f, (obsolete) disperație f
• Russian: безнадёжность (ru) f (beznadjóžnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: beznađe (sh) n, безнађе n
• Spanish: desesperanza (es) f
• Swedish: hopplöshet (sv) c
• Tagalog: kawalang-pag-asa
• Turkish: umutsuzluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: безнаді́йність (uk) f (beznadíjnistʹ)